Sunday, March 3, 2013

Duct Tape Really Does Fix Everything!

I came across an idea on Pinterest (of course) months ago and I've finally gotten around to executing it this weekend.

We have two occasional chairs in our living room that I bought a couple years ago. The cats immediately took ownership over them and basically destroyed them in record time. Bummer for me because I really liked the pop of colour they gave, but I still hesitated tossing them out because in my mind they were relatively new and still served a purpose. Then I decided they just needed to be recovered. What I chose to recover them with didn't match my personal decor though. The 'material' was more acceptable for a teenager. What a coincidence! I just happen to have one of those and he just so happens to be getting a new bedroom.

Here is the side chair before I tackled it but after the cats tackled it.

I basically just took my time and pieced it all together in as many large pieces of duct tape as I could. The less seams the better as I have a feeling eventually someone will pick away at a seam. The good thing about this kind of reupholster is that I only need a new piece of duct tape to fix it and it won't stand out like a sore thumb! I hope he likes it. I think it will be a pretty cool addition to a teen aged boys room and I have enough duct tape to redo the second chair if Gage decides he needs extra seating. Or maybe I'll just reupholster the second chair and give it away to someone.

This particular chair took one entire roll of duct tape and about 3 extra (long) pieces of another roll. Not too pricey of a project when you consider these chairs were basically just headed to the dump. Now this one has a chance at a 2nd life.

This Pinterest thing is making me think outside the box these days. I would have never thought of it either had I not seen something similar. And now with all the different colours of duct tape, the re-upholstery world if an art canvas....or something deep like that. :)

He thought it was pretty neat and so did all his friends. It's still in his room. We've had to add a couple new pieces of tape to it where the edge curled where our knees rest against it. But it was the easiest fix I've ever done on a piece of furniture. So even when it's starting to roll on the edges, a new piece keeps it looking clean and brand new. Ha!!

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